Grrl Power #1347 - Schwinn...g?
Added 2025-04-14 10:00:18 +0000 UTCThank you for the support! You guys and grrls are awesome!
So Flash Drive is supposed to be ridiculously hot. In the comic, he suffers from my artistic limitations, as well as the fact that I am a heterosexual male with a finite understanding of what women find attractive. The first panel with his face (don't ask what happened to his helmet. He super speeded it off I guess. And... hid it behind his back?) But in that first panel, I think he's probably kind of hot? Like in a "I am a conspicuously attractive male and you wouldn't be surprised seeing my face doing a Blue Steel thing in an underwear ad but if you saw me at a bar, your defenses would go up because I look like I know I'm super hot and am therefore kind of a smug dick" way. In the next two panels, that 3/4 view... I think his comeliness drops about 6 points in those. I just couldn't match the face. Or, maybe I could have, but this is two double pages in a row when I'm already pressed for time, so... Anyway, the gag is that he's super hot and women (and a certain percentage of men) go gooey.
Oh, and I'm sure people who are super into cycling might have some opinion about Flash Drive's bike. Look, I don't know how to draw bikes. I found a 3D model of a reasonable looking bike, screen shotted it at different angles, and traced it. Not some titanium $20,000 Tour de France number, just a bike that didn't look like a 60 pound Radio Flyer cruiser that rattles going down a sidewalk like a knight in full plate on a galloping horse.
Comments
She specifically objects to “Cupps”, which is pickling the purchase option (for coffee) that “gives a bit of eye candy”
KnightRider007
2025-04-15 05:56:49 +0000 UTCBicycle-Man! Does whatever a bicycle can.
Martin Drkoš
2025-04-15 05:17:54 +0000 UTCComplete with Groucho Marx voice impression and cigar wiggle.
eddi_TBH
2025-04-15 03:28:43 +0000 UTCHe may be the only one with the right security clearances from ARC and everyone else involved in the dungeon project.
eddi_TBH
2025-04-15 03:27:37 +0000 UTCPure Unobtanium. Same for his shoes.
eddi_TBH
2025-04-15 03:13:30 +0000 UTCPre-clearance. Like the lunch wagons and the mailman.
eddi_TBH
2025-04-15 03:12:55 +0000 UTCHe's got their undivided attention. The only reason Dabbler isn't moving in on him is because Ellie is totally smitten. And it's kinda cute. Max agrees. As to the bike. The difference in $200 and $20,000 is impossible for an untrained eye to spot. All the same angles on the frame and the same gear bolted on to it as far as anyone can tell. The only caveat to that is he uses regular pedals instead clip-ons where a cleat on the shoe locks into the pedal. And since he needs to walk around sometimes to make deliveries that makes sense.
eddi_TBH
2025-04-15 03:11:48 +0000 UTCthis dude is very much hammering me in the Pan...
ZombieRonSwanson
2025-04-14 23:52:43 +0000 UTCI love the way she says, "My package?" Who else's package would she have been thinking about?
Marc Vun Kannon
2025-04-14 22:53:26 +0000 UTCGiven the nature of this project, you would think a random courier wouldn't be allowed to just drive in here.
Stefan J Neylon
2025-04-14 22:11:24 +0000 UTCWhat special materials has that bike got to be made out of? There's no way those are regular rubber tires.
James Jakes
2025-04-14 21:54:04 +0000 UTCKind of reminds me of Val Kilmer (RIP) at his peak.
Hugh Eckert
2025-04-14 21:50:49 +0000 UTCthe scrunchies or bands are still in you can see them in the last panel but it just got fluffed up a lot
Otoger
2025-04-14 17:44:31 +0000 UTCShe had a loose double pony tail last comic that got pulled out of the scrunchies when he went whipping past them.
Jared
2025-04-14 16:20:37 +0000 UTCtrue
Reigys
2025-04-14 16:16:34 +0000 UTChaha
Reigys
2025-04-14 16:15:48 +0000 UTCAccurate tbh
Reigys
2025-04-14 16:15:22 +0000 UTCLol
Reigys
2025-04-14 16:14:39 +0000 UTCThank you for remembering Matt Bomer! His role as Neal Caffrey was a perfect rendition of what an American James Bond would be.
Erin Palette
2025-04-14 16:08:43 +0000 UTCThe bike has a front derailleur but no second chainring. It also appears to not have shift levers or brake handles. If the bike was a fixed gear style, then simply remove the derailleur.
M. Lampi
2025-04-14 15:43:55 +0000 UTCLooks like a slightly more ripped Henry Cavill...
JasonAW3
2025-04-14 15:39:37 +0000 UTCIt could just be a fixed gear bike, though that would probably be a stress hell for the bike when it comes to stopping at those speeds.
Damian
2025-04-14 15:08:47 +0000 UTCAlso, minor spelling error, you spelled funny as "funy" (although maybe it's a written version of "being struck dumb by your presence" 🤷♂️)
Terence Bryant-White
2025-04-14 13:44:00 +0000 UTCMaybe all that, with a very faint golden aura with golden sparkles?
Terence Bryant-White
2025-04-14 13:37:13 +0000 UTCMaxima: "Ehhh, I've seen better 😐" , Dabbler: "😼 *MEOW* 😼" , Ellie: *clean up on aisle 12, and bring a mop...*
Terence Bryant-White
2025-04-14 13:31:15 +0000 UTCHe reminds me of the "Legally Blonde" UPS guy.
Stephen Gilberg
2025-04-14 13:27:41 +0000 UTCAnybody else notice how Dabbler's hair went from a shaggy tomboy cut to a full-on after-sex coif?
Town Crier
2025-04-14 12:52:37 +0000 UTCDon't ask me why, I'm getting Carlos Sainz vibes...
Richard du Maine
2025-04-14 12:40:22 +0000 UTCNot sure what madman would mount Trommel Remmen op een racefiets... But still he'd need some brake mechanisme. Discbrakes would be optimal,.... or posible a fixi setup with the front derailleur as an astetic choise. Gr Alex (Groetjes uit Nederland 🇳🇱)
Alex
2025-04-14 12:39:55 +0000 UTCHe could be using a Coaster Brake (trommel rem in dutch), tough yeah fat chance of one of those on a bike like that. But maybe he's super fast anyway so reversing is fast for him as well?
Robin
2025-04-14 12:32:43 +0000 UTC"I am aware of the effect I have on women."
You_With_The_Face
2025-04-14 12:02:48 +0000 UTCYou named her after the wine? And this close to Passover. You do play 4D chess well.
Mark Nach
2025-04-14 11:54:56 +0000 UTCI think that might depend on what the package is; ordering something you need, and picking the delivery option that gives a bit of "eye candy" is one thing; ordering something you neither need nor want entirely for the "eye candy" is another matter entirely.
James C
2025-04-14 11:43:11 +0000 UTCYou've gotten a near-perfect synthesis of Henry Cavill and Matt Bomer.
GreenmansGrove
2025-04-14 11:39:18 +0000 UTCAnd the Akira Slide.
Opus the Poet
2025-04-14 11:35:50 +0000 UTCMax *should* be just as irate as she would be at any guy who ordered a service specifically because the provider was a hot woman. Because that's clearly what Elsbeth has done here. Max isn't written as blatantly hypocritical.
KnightRider007
2025-04-14 10:59:37 +0000 UTCYou actually drew a dead ringer for Mario Cippolini right down to the 5 o'clock shadow. And he's also a male model after his retirement from pro cycling.
Opus the Poet
2025-04-14 10:54:41 +0000 UTCJust FYI the jersey and shorts are available commercially.
Opus the Poet
2025-04-14 10:33:00 +0000 UTCHe obviously decelerated by looping around the track! 😁
Evil Midnight Lurker
2025-04-14 10:28:37 +0000 UTCRob Lowe! That's who he looks like in the first head-on panel: a 20-something Rob Lowe.
TexasTies
2025-04-14 10:27:20 +0000 UTCDabbler's thought bubble in the last panel: "I'll sign for that package any time"
Michael Obert
2025-04-14 10:14:28 +0000 UTCAs always I appreciate your work Dave. We all understand that this is art and not a photorealistic recreation of what's happening. Trust me I understand your pain with describing good looking men. My DND character with charisma 21 was described as Fabio with black flowing hair because I couldn't fathom what would make women actually swoon and just did the best I could. 😅😅😅😅
Matthew Dodgen
2025-04-14 10:13:14 +0000 UTCSpeaking as a bicycle mechanic..... You tacticly obscure the most technical bits (the derailer and the second gear at the front). So no worries there..... Though I've got to ask. How does the guy brake without break-leavers? ;D Gr Alex
Alex
2025-04-14 10:10:59 +0000 UTCThat "certain percentage" is a lot, though Voltaire is more my speed for hetero man crushes, lol
tsukiouji
2025-04-14 10:10:46 +0000 UTCThe hotness is kind of there, he’s a solid 6.5 or a shaky 8.
TrixieTurner
2025-04-14 10:05:54 +0000 UTCVery funy ;-) And he just put his helmet on the handlebar, like many cyclists.
Thomas Dorner
2025-04-14 10:05:48 +0000 UTC
